![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | Popular Politics in Southern Africa - MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University Historian Paul Landau (University of Maryland) on rethinking the broad history of Southern Africa from 1400 to 1948. His new book re-asserts African agency by seeing Africans in motion, coming out of their own past. Drawing on oral traditions, genealogies, 19th-century conversations, and other sources, Landau highlights the resilience of African political cultures and their adeptness at incorporating diverse peoples. Keywords: history; missionaries; Paul Landau; political culture; South Africa; Southern Africa; tribe Downloads: 35 |
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